Based on The concise heath Anthology of American Literature from 1965 to the preset answer the following questions as a essay. Minimum 600 words.
About Realism.
Henry James's "Daisy Miller: A Study" is told by a third-person narrator. However, this narrator focuses on Winterbourne, not Daisy. Essentially, Winterbourne is studying Daisy (hence, the story's title: "Daisy Miller: A Study), but at the same time, the narrator is, in a sense, studying Winterbourne. Take up this idea and explore what the narrator reveals about Winterbourne. Use textual evidence (quotations from the text) to support your ideas.
2. What are the basic characteristics of Realism? Choose one work from this week's reading and show how it embodies these characteristics.
3. Realism is a reaction to Romanticism, how does William Dean Howells's "Editha" embody this reaction?